UNISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the
importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal
of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related
technological and environmental disasters.

Achieve recognition, understanding and specific policies at the international level on the
synergies between reducing disaster risk and responding to climate change.

Mobilize, guide and facilitate action at national and regional levels to integrate disaster
reduction and climate change policies and practice.

Strengthen the capacities of ISDR System partners to support the integration of disaster
reduction and climate change by all actors.

It supports the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) System in implementing the
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
Disasters and in building a culture of prevention in society as part of sustainable development.

Action pledge

This action pledge commits the ISDR Secretariat to share the ISDR System’s knowledge in
reducing risk to adapt to climate change and responds to several Calls for Action. It pledges
numerous activities under the following areas of the Nairobi work programme:

Climate related risks and extreme events
- To support UNFCCC Parties’ understanding of the link between disaster risk reduction and
adaptation and build capacity
- To assess the costs and benefits of adaptation options
- To advance the use of insurance-related instruments for coping with climate variability and change

Socio-economic information
- To analyze impact and adaptation studies and document good practices

Adaptation planning and practices (at various levels and within and across
sectors)- To support development of legal and institutional frameworks to enhance
cross-sectoral collaboration on adaptation, using existing platforms to bring together sectoral
stakeholders
- To reduce vulnerability in urban areas

Methods and toolsTo support activities at regional meetings in Americas-region
to share disaster risk reduction methods and tools with climate change adaptation practitioners and
climate change methods and tools with disaster risk reduction practitioners, in collaboration with
ISDR System partners

UN/ISDR provided updated information on their activities as a contribution to the Nairobi
work programme publication "Action Pledges: Making a difference on the ground. A synthesis of
the outcomes, good practices, lessons learned, and future challenges
and opportunities". The information can be found in Chapter 7
"Reducing risks of extreme events and climate-related disasters"